The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-30
FOR FEAR OF A MADHOUSE
RoBE CAMPBELL SHOOTS HIMSELF IN
RILEY A. BRICKS PhRLOR.


Mr. Brick 10 hts step.e~. and was hts Partner
In q Disastreue Ives Extraordinarily bis-
seu.tops-Mr. Campbell, Not Badly Hart
After breakfast yesterday Robert Camp
bell OF Madison avenue went up tho brown
stone steps of his stepson's residence at 20
East Thirty-eight street, and rang the Doll.
His stepson is MIR. Riley A. Brick. with whom
no was formerly in business In Iron castings
at 112 Leonard street. Mr.. Campbell was Inn
patient ut the delay OF the maid In answering
the boil, and no jerked the bell furiously.
When the door was opened he told the girl to
tell Mrs Brick that he had called to see her,
and that he would be found In the parlor.
Then Mr.. Campbell went into the parlor and
the girl delivered the message to Mrs. Brick.
While Mrs. Brick was on her way down stairs
she heard the report OF q pistol, and Fastening
to the parlor she found Mr. Campbell lying on
the floor in front OF the tall pier glass bleeding
from a wound in his head. by his side was a
new seven cham bered revolver. Mr.. Camp
bell was conscious and he said to Mrs. Brick
in response to her questions that he preierred
dying by his own hand to living to be sent to
u Br. William Tod Helmuth Coroner, and .
found that DR.. Campbell lad fired bat onss
chamber OF the revolver, and that the ball had
ploughed through his hair and scraped FUR
row on his scalp He is suffering from shock
only, anu VIII De kept uiluer arTeol ~ WI.
Bricks house for two or three daysi His ,, re-.
house Mr.; Campbell viii probably be removed
Mr.. Campbell was a prominent real estate
dealer twenty years ago, and retired with a
determined to return to business in different
line. His first wife had died: and he married
widow, who Is still living. Mr.. Riley A. Brick,
her son, was Yale College student ana MIR.
Campbell and Mr. Brick, after his graduation;
an iron foundry In South Amboy, and had
their city office ut 112 Leonard street. The
name OF the firm was Brick; campbell q 20.
The firm did not prosper First the foundry
was mortgaged. Il BECAME necessary TO raise
insurance policies and delivered them to M.
Campbell. who ,hypothecated them. The
policies amounted to over Sl4 600.
The firm of Brick, Campbell Il Go. went to tho
wall twelve years ago. and MIR. Brick went
through since then suits have
the policies or their equivalent. She was
beaten In the Superior Court There has been
other 9th rh Litigation between MIR. Brick and Mr.
Mr.. franklin W. Campbell. son of Robert
Campbell, said yesterday that he believed that
his father had attempted to commit suicide be-
cause of some of these troubles. Robert Camp
bell, the son said had paid out $50 900 in salts,
flying Mr. Bricks creditors. MIR. Campbell said
that his father was not In the habit Of carrying
avenue. where Franklin lives with his father.
there was nothing strange about the fathers
conduct He had never heard his father say
anything that indicated an unsound mind.
Brick, equally with Mr.. Campbell. had been
sufferer from their losses, and that Mr.. Camp-
bell had no reason to believe that he had been
badly treated by Mr.. Brick.